One of the most pressing debates in South Africa concerns the need of writers to
address the complex sociopolitical demands of the present day situation. In this
paper I examine J M Coetzee's use of Postmodernism forms ...

This thesis examines certain social and institutional forces that have shaped the outlooks and procedures of English departments in South Africa. The approach taken is based on the researches of Michel Foucault, notably ...

This thesis deals with Tacitus' portrayal of women by examining in detail a number of
the female characters in the Annals in order to identify certain themes and ideas
relating to women. The most striking theme to emerge ...

This is a cross-cultural communication study which investigates the compliment response behaviour of Indian and African students at the Springfield College of Education. The Springfield College of Education is a desegregating ...

This thesis examines sources of interactional asynchrony and synchrony in intercultural medical consultations between South African English speaking doctors and Zulu-English speaking patients in an urban setting in South ...

The oral background, ability in English and academic and social interaction of the non
mother-tongue student was the focus of this study. The oral background of the African
student is an important consideration as it ...

This study investigates the role of codeswitching in classroom interactions involving teachers and pupils in Transkei Junior Secondary schools. Codeswitching practices, the alternate use by teachers in these schools of two ...

This dissertation describes a microethnographic study of the induction of preschool children
into the practices of schooled literacy at an ex-Natal Education Department,
Anglican-affiliated preschool. The sources of data ...

This dissertation explores the contribution of critical discourse analysis (CDA)
using functional systemic grammar (FSG) to curriculum development in
historical studies at university level. The study is premised on an ...

This thesis reports on an investigation of the schemata of trainee teachers from a range of different ethnic and language groups in KwaZulu-Natal who had been educated in racially segregated school systems. Informed by the ...

This research study, in its efforts to discuss the consequences of the introduction of literacy among the Zulu people in Umbumbulu, will embody the social and
educational aspects of the oral Zulu people before and after ...

The end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 triggered unprecedented changes in the country's institutions including the school. In the city of Durban one such change was the influx of Zulu-speaking pupils into previously ...

This research report encompasses the development and implementation of a cooperative learning project over four cycles of action research. The context for this research is eleven business communication classes, primarily ...

This investigation analyses current issues in the language teaching situation at the
University of Durban-Westville (UDW). It defines parameters with which language
educators can make choices. Effective language teaching ...

This study is an ethnographic investigation into the teaching of writing in an African secondary school in the Pietermaritzburg area. It arose out of my awareness that schooling distributes literacy unequally and negatively ...

The dissertation focuses on lM. Coetzee's novel The Master of Petersburg, read as a confessional text and discussed in the light of theories of the western tradition of confession. By way of introduction some of the themes ...